Loom-temple.



No; 687,543. Patented Nov. 26, |9ol. n. P. PEARSQN & G. o. DRAPEH.

LUDM TEMPLE.

(Application led Apr. 4, 1901.;

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT P. PEARSON, OF GLOUCESTER CITY, NEW JERSEY, AND GEORGE O. DRAPER, OF HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNORS TO DRAPER COMPANY, OF PORTLAND, MAINE, AND HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS.

Loom-TEM PLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 687,543, dated November 26, 1901.

Application tiled April 4, 1901.

To @ZZ whom it may con/cern,.-

Beit known that We, ROBERT P. PEAEsoN, residing at Gloucester City, in the county of Camden and State of New Jersey,and GEORGE O. DRAPER, residing at Hopedale, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, citizens of the United States, have in-j vented an Improvement in Loom-Temples, of which the following description, in connecio tion with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like'parts. j

This invention has for its object the production of a leoni-temple embodying novel features of construction and arrangement whereby the telnple is adapted to a great many different kinds of looms and to various styles of Weaving.

Figure 1 is aside elevation of a loom-tcmzo ple embodying one form of our invention, a portion of the breast-beam and the lay of a loom being shown in connection therewith; and Fig. Qis a top or plan view of the temple illustrated in Fig. l.

It is now common to attach loom-temples to the breast-beam of a loom by dierent plates, stands, or other devices in order to attain the proper position of the temple with relation to the lay, and in order to secure different adj ustments various styles of plates are used. We have herein provided a loom-temple which by virtue of its novel features of construction obviates the use of the various attaching-plates or similar devices now in use, so that one temple can be adapted to various styles of weaving and to many different kinds of looms.

Referring to the drawings, the stand A, adapted to be secured to the breast-beam A40, 4o Fig. l, and the slide-bar A may be and are in the main of usual or well-known construction, but in accordance with our invention the temple-head is pivoted or hinged to the bar instead of being fixedly connected thereto. The pod B is shown as provided with an upturned extension h, slotted at its upper end to form ears b, between which the end of the bar A enters, as clearly shown in Fig. 2, and a headed pivot-stud ax is extended Serial No. 54,232. (No model.)

through the ears and the bar to hinge the head to the latter, the head comprising the pod B' and cap B2, which may be of usual construction. Anut a screws onto the threaded end of the stud ctx, and when said nut is tightened the head will be held iu fixed position relatively to the bar. It will be manifest that the head may be set in desired position relatively to the lay A3, Fig. l, without changing the stand A, and in said figure we have shown in dotted lines another position of the head. We have also provided means for taking up the blow of the lay as it beats up independently of the head, so that when used in connection with the adjustable head the joint between the latter and the bar will not be subjected to the strain of the blow. In accordance with this part of our invention the bar A has a depending leg 0,2, terminating in a transverse laterally-extended foot d3, to which the heel BB is secured by screws B4, passed through slots in the overhanging part b3 of the head and into threaded holes in the foot a3. The blow of the lay as it beats up is thus transmitted through the heel directly to the bar without any portion of the strain being imparted to the head or the joint between it and the bar, so that there is no tendency whatever to loosen the joint or disarrange the adjustment of the head. It will also be manifest that by this arrangement the angular position of the head may be adjusted as desired, whereas if the heel should be secured to or form a part of the head the heel would not be squarely engaged by the lay if the head should be adjusted at a considerable angle to the bar.

Inasmuch as the position of the templehead relative to the lay can be varied or adjusted by our invention without change of the stand it will be manifest that the use of different forms of stands, plates, or other attaching devices are obviated and that one temple can be adapted to diderent kinds of looms and for various styles of weaving, vas may be necessary.'

Having described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a loom temple, a bar, a depending In testimony whereof Wehave signed our heel rigidly secured thereto, a head pivot-ally names to this specification in the presence of mounted on the barl to swing in a vertical path two subscribing witnesses.

Vlelativeto the loar, andmeans to 11 1aintain ROBERT P PEARSON' 5 tigflveelaglnbgljtically-adg usted position rela- GEORGE O DRAPER 2. In a loom-temple, the stand, a bar lougi- Witnesses for R. P. Pearson: tudinally movable therein, the head, a trans- FRANCIS M. MCADAMS, verse pivot connecting it with the baiwhere- PETER MCADAMS. xo by the head maybe swung in a Vertical path, Witnesses for G. O. Draper:

and means to hold the head from pivotal E.V D. BANCROFT,

movement. l ERNEST W. WooD. 

